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Veal Cutlets, Braised

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets, Braised

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lard the veal cutlets on one side.

  2. In a stew pan, place minced onions and carrots at the bottom.

  3. Lay the cutlets on top of the vegetables and cover with stock.

  4. Add wine if desired and cook until the cutlets are thoroughly done.

  5. For a special touch, boil down the stock to glaze the cutlets or make a gravy with flour, roux, pepper, and salt, then strain it.

  6. Serve with tomato sauce, or arrange cutlets around a mound of mashed potatoes, or with beans, peas, or cauliflower florets.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Carrot + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,443 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Potato + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, onion, carrot, wine, flour, pepper, beans):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Parsnipfits about as well
  3. Okrafits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, onion, carrot, wine, flour, pepper, beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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